To mark National Read Across America Day, Google Play Books is getting a pair of tools to make the Android and iOS apps more friendly for kids and young readers.
The app has always been “primarily designed for proficient readers,” but Google last year set out to “rethink what learning to read means for younger readers, their parents, and anyone else who may be a beginning reader.” It…
Given how “typography and iconography are so strongly related,” Google Fonts is adding Material icons and getting a new logo in the process.
Google has long offered a catalog of free and open source fonts. It’s now adding iconography to make a one-stop discovery…
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Google Duo on Android using ‘Lyra’ to offer natural-sounding voice calls on even a 2G connection
March 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Lyra, a new technology that allows Duo, and soon other apps, to offer natural-sounding voice chat with as little as 3 kilobytes per second of network bandwidth.
With so many of us still unable to visit with loved ones, video calling apps have played a key role in keeping us all connected to one another, with Google Duo and Meet hosting over 1 trillion minutes of video last…
Google’s car OS today is available on the Polestar 2 and Volvo XC40 Recharge, with many more vehicles coming down the road. Volvo today announced the C40 Recharge as a follow-up that also uses Android Automotive.
The C40’s center console is very similar to that of the…
The Chief Marketing Officer of Oppo India tweeted out the following teaser for the upcoming F19 Pro series. Two models are mentioned by name – Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ 5G (there should be a vanilla F19 too).
We only get a vague “coming soon” for the launch date, but…
DxOMark has finished its camera review of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (using an Exynos-powered unit) and the results are not good – the overall score is just 121. Not only is that low, but it’s less than the 126 points awarded to the Galaxy S20 Ultra from a year ago. Note: the S20 Ultra was retested with Version 4 of the review process, so the scores should be comparable.
Let’s look at the…
We’re just a week away from OnePlus revealing the launch date for its OnePlus 9 event. Alongside the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro, we’re expecting a more budget-friendly offering which was rumored as the OnePlus 9 E/Lite. Last week revealed the device might actually be called…
Unknown Realme phone leaks through 3D renders
March 2, 2021
While the Realme GT is getting most of the attention, the company is working on other phones as well. One of them was recreated in 3D by who has some details on what appears to be an affordable model. Unfortunately, the name of it is not yet known.
That teardrop notch on…
Gionee launched the Max smartphone in India last August, and now it has a follow-up offering for the subcontinent, in the form of the Max Pro.
This model comes with a 6.52-inch 720×1560 LCD touchscreen, the Unisoc SC9863A chipset (with an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU), 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, a 13 MP rear camera aided by a 2 MP depth sensor and LED flash, an 8 MP selfie snapper…
